Figured it was time to open a thread so all of the Alabama fans can tell the rest of us how great the Tide are going to be this season.

I was actually prompted by news that Notre Dame and Wisconsin are going to start playing games against each other starting in 2020, first at Lambeau and then the next year at Soldier Field.

They haven't met since 1964, which coincided with Ara Parseghian's first year as coach. Should be interesting, considering how huge the fan base for both teams is in Chicago. In Wisconsin, I'm pretty sure the ND fan base is a wee bit smaller.

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Ah yes, college football season. The time of year when people attach themselves and their emotions to schools they never went to and teams they never played on. Fall is the time of year when "we" is the most overused word in the English language.

Ah yes, college football season. The time of year when people attach themselves and their emotions to schools they never went to and teams they never played on. Fall is the time of year when "we" is the most overused word in the English language.

I follow three teams; my alma mater (who will be happy to have more than 4 or 5 wins this year), Duke (where I work and went to grad school), and peripherally Wisconsin (because I have family who went there, and one who taught there).

Football is a whole helluva lot better to follow than politics or that crap in Virginia.....

I follow three teams; my alma mater (who will be happy to have more than 4 or 5 wins this year), Duke (where I work and went to grad school), and peripherally Wisconsin (because I have family who went there, and one who taught there).

Football is a whole helluva lot better to follow than politics or that crap in Virginia.....

Hell yes it is. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy college football and pretty much wait all summer for it to finally kick off.

Hell yes it is. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy college football and pretty much wait all summer for it to finally kick off.

I read you. We get the same thing come basketball season in my AO...people come out of the wood work for UNC or Duke, 90% have zero affiliation with either school.

For me sports is my 'release valve.' After almost 19 years of marriage I think my wife finally gets this. If I pay attention to sports and stay away from name-the-news-network-here, I tend to be happier.

As for anyone that actually matters in the college football landscape, as much as I hate to, I really hope Fla State wins the national championship. I really don't care for any of the other top-5 teams.

They are going to be very good. My wife's friend is the SID for football at Duke, can get us press passes for any game this season, my son wants to go to the Duke-FSU game. I was like "Really?? It's gonna be a blow-out." But, that's what he wants, so I suppose we'll go see the blow-out.

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As a South Carolina alum and (sadly) fan, I look forward to another season of being just barely good enough to make a low-rent bowl game by squeezing out wins over weak teams, being shamefully blown out by good ones, and in one or two games teasing a possible upset victory before finding a way to not quite pull it off.

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As a South Carolina alum and (sadly) fan, I look forward to another season of being just barely good enough to make a low-rent bowl game by squeezing out wins over weak teams, being shamefully blown out by good ones, and in one or two games teasing a possible upset victory before finding a way to not quite pull it off.

Go Cocks!!!

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As a South Carolina alum and (sadly) fan, I look forward to another season of being just barely good enough to make a low-rent bowl game by squeezing out wins over weak teams, being shamefully blown out by good ones, and in one or two games teasing a possible upset victory before finding a way to not quite pull it off.